Eva L'Hoest's videos transport us into environments which, though familiar, are inhabited by hybrid materials and hazy figures. The transient forms that she creates derive from reality, and then, through various technological tools, acquire a fluid texture and an unsettling autonomy. In her video installation, the characters move from screen to screen while memory fragments, captured by an MRI and artificial intelligence, and grotesque, timeless, miniature characters appear successively, seemingly inhabiting the dream of an avatar asleep. To give life to these creatures, Eva L'Hoest uses files taken from a video games and neuroscience, coupled with the accidents of virtual images and with the flaws of algorithms to compose singular landscapes where the look of human and machine are mingled.
Text by Adélaïde Blanc, September 2019